Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

"That's what the boss said. He's determined to completely clear out this area and take over their oasis." Meanwhile, Lao Xia's reinforcements are on their way; it remains to be seen who will arrive first.

Once these tribes are cleared out, it means that half of the Longnan Desert will be in his hands. Next, he can just farm normally. When the desert and southern caravans arrive in the autumn, he can start shipping goods and carry out economic slaughter.

Once the slaughter is nearly over, you can begin to expand southward, extending along the trade routes until you eventually take over the entire North Kazdel. Once you reach the vicinity of the central mountains, you can stop and summon Rhodes Island.

Old Xia had no intention of establishing a regime. A country has too many things to worry about, especially the rule of a foreign race, which is too easy to incite rebellion. In comparison, Rhodes Island is more suitable for doing this kind of thing.

After that, they simply used economic means to conquer the entire South Kazdel. In the north, they relied more on scimitars, but it wasn't as suitable for the south. After all, you can't just transplant the successful experience from Somalia to the South China Sea.

The checkmate flag fell, and the Doctor clasped his hands in front of him, looking at Kal'tsit. Kal'tsit frowned, looking at the chessboard. It was still a long way from checkmate. "No need to look anymore. You have three strategies for the next move, but I have nine ways to checkmate you within ten moves. Nine ways. From this move on, you can no longer turn the tide."

“Yes, that’s true.” Kal’tsit’s brow relaxed. “So, is there nothing that can be changed?”

"You," Dr. You reached out, picked up his "King," and tossed it into the chess piece box. "That's the solution."

"This isn't how a 'chess player' would act..."

"But is he playing chess with you? A chess player? Ha—" The doctor shook his head with a cold laugh. "You think you're playing chess, you're a chess player, but your opponent thinks you're playing whack-a-mole and has grabbed the hammer. Guess who will win this game, you, the excellent chess player, or the one who doesn't even play chess with you but chooses to smash your entire chessboard with a hammer?"

"So the only way is for you to use non-chess player tactics to deal with him, such as removing his king. Now the question is: can you do that?"

"It's not impossible, after all, the king is the weakest piece on the entire chessboard..."

"It's also the strongest. As long as the king is still alive, you can't lose. At most, it'll be a draw." The professor tidied up the chessboard. "You can't remove his king, but he can play checkers with you, removing all your pieces one by one, and even making them his own."

"When playing chess, you have to make sure your opponent is a chess player. Secondly, you have to make sure your opponent is playing the same kind of chess as you." The doctor sighed, the changes after waking up were simply astonishing.

"Moreover, his chessboard is not just the one in front of you..." The doctor thought for a moment, "Don't underestimate extraterrestrial visitors. You may understand the world beyond the heavens, but you may not understand the difference between the two."

"Not even our ancestors?"

"No," the doctor replied firmly. "And don't ask me if I can crack this technology. If you could turn back time, perhaps I could give you an answer, but right now, no."

Warp technology, huh? With warp technology, why would we need generations of Arks? And speaking of Arks, the Doctor looked up at the sun, slightly obscuring its light.

"Kal'tsit, contact that visitor from outer space and tell him to come see me when he has time. I have something to show him..."

"Mr. Xia might not have the time for that..."

“You just say one word to him, and he understands.”

"what?"

Dr. Helium Flash thought for a moment and said, "If he asks you for the time, just tell him this string of numbers. He will understand and will definitely come back."

Chapter Sixty-Six: Summary of the Summit Talks

Chapter 66

"Helium flash?" Xia Lin's first reaction upon hearing this term was to look at the sun. However, a few seconds later, she came to her senses. If it really was a helium flash, then this planet should no longer exist. Within a few seconds, it would release more than a million times the energy of a star, and some stars might even release instantaneous energy equivalent to the power of the entire Milky Way.

Helium flashes are an inevitable phenomenon that occurs as stars age, because the hydrogen in their core has been depleted.

The helium produced relies on degeneracy pressure rather than thermal pressure to resist the star's gravity, and cannot ignite helium fusion.

Here, degeneracy refers to complete degeneracy. Simply put, a group of free particles is considered as a series of discontinuous energies called quantum states. Based on the Pauli exclusion principle, the same fermions cannot occupy the same quantum states. If every quantum state is occupied, the state is "completely degenerate".

When a particle is in a state of complete degeneracy, reducing its volume or increasing the number of particles will force it to enter an energy level quantum state. On a macroscopic scale, this requires a compressive force, which is called degeneracy pressure or Fermi pressure.

It is not zero even at absolute zero, and this pressure does not depend on temperature, but on the density of fermions.

When the temperature and degeneracy pressure of a star's core increase to a certain level, it will ignite the flames of helium fusion. Since the volume of degenerate matter is not affected by temperature, its extremely high density will cause helium to burn much faster than hydrogen, releasing a large amount of energy in just a few seconds and causing the star to age.

When the process ends, thermal pressure becomes dominant again as a large amount of energy is absorbed by the outer shell, eventually forming a new equilibrium. As a result, the matter expands and cools, and the star becomes a red giant. At this point, the core consists of 40% electron-degenerate helium and 6% carbon.

In addition to the conventional helium flash, there is another type of helium flash that occurs when a star enters the asymptotic giant branch, also known as the "shell helium flash," which releases energy in a relatively long and low manner.

Because the star's internal helium was also exhausted, only a thin layer of hydrogen on the surface and helium in the lower layer formed a helium flash.

The fusion warheads of the Covenant's conventional anti-ship missiles utilize this degenerate fusion constructed from gravitons, forming a degenerate state of ultra-high density and high temperature matter that differs from the plasma state, which is then released as a penetrating jet within seconds.

The jet diameter is less than 2 meters. After hitting the target, it will expand and cool rapidly like a giant star. The high-temperature material of more than 100 million Kelvin will quickly form a spherical shape and engulf the surrounding ship. The instantaneous equivalent is close to more than 2 billion tons.

To ensure saturation destruction, this anti-ship missile will launch 24 missiles at once, including real and decoy warheads, for a total of 170-190 warheads, of which 48 are real warheads. A single hit is enough to destroy a warship of more than one megaton (100 million tons).

Born during a time of war, Xia Lin not only knew what a helium flash was, but had also witnessed the "artificial helium flash jet," which was countless times weaker than a natural star, being bombarded by anti-ship missiles on planets or spaceships. He immediately felt a chill run down his spine.

This is not a question of survival—because before the helium flash, the star contracts, its luminosity weakens, and the increased radiation is enough to wipe out the entire nearby ecosystem, so they don't even have to wait for the helium flash to occur.

However, I was indeed tied up with other things and could only do it remotely. After careful consideration, the doctor agreed, since everything would be wiped out if a helium flash occurred.

However, that was a matter for the future, while a person would die in a few days if they didn't eat. He knew which was more important.

"The duration of the helium flash, and what do you mean by the numbers you gave me?"

"You don't understand?"

"Nonsense, I'm an agronomy major!" The professor remained silent for a long time, his expression as if you were in the midst of despair during a city lockdown, finally finding a way to smuggle some fried chicken through an underground channel, only to discover it was artificial meat just as you were about to take a bite.

"That's the luminosity observation function of a star. Let me be frank, what do you think of that ring around Terra?"

"You mean that ring of rubble above?" Xia Lin thought for a few seconds. "Is that the debris from your construction?"

"No, it's the remains of the defensive barrier, no, it should be said that it's part of the defensive barrier."

When the Doctor faced Xia Lin, who was also from an advanced civilization, he didn't use any riddles, because both of them could understand the meaning behind them.

"Terra has many ruins and many generations of civilizations, and they call people like me the First Ones. In fact, we are not the first civilization on Terra."

The doctor carefully considered his words, "A long time ago, Terra's star was a very... bright star. A very bright star means that its thermonuclear reactions were very intense, either because its mass was large enough, or because its burning reaction rate was too fast..."

"The Originium effect field, no, it should be said that it is caused by Originium particles?"

"That's right," the doctor replied after a moment of silence. "And you've probably already discovered the properties of Originium. So, to put it simply, if Originium is activated by an electromagnetic source, then what is the largest electromagnetic source in the entire galaxy?"

"The sun, therefore, will cycle through its life cycle and experience the same thing as the Terra catastrophe: a rapid increase in brightness and thermal pressure in a short period of time, the thermal pressure exceeding the star's gravity, the star's matter expanding, and eventually engulfing the nearest planet."

"Higher thermal pressure allows helium to accumulate at a faster rate, and it doesn't need to accumulate to a threshold before entering a degenerate state, further increasing the stellar core density and heat, accelerating the reaction, and then..."

"A helium flash, a star that doesn't need to grow old to start a helium flash, our Sun... will devour its children much sooner. In fact, it has already swallowed two planets." The doctor dropped another bombshell.

"Compared to natural disasters on planets, the cycle of this nova-like phenomenon on the sun is much longer. The first time, it brought the spark of life to Terra. The second time, it destroyed the first generation of civilization and drove the survivors underground. You may have met the Durin race; their technology is very advanced."

"So, how many times is it now?"

"The fourth and final time, which was the real helium flash, the hydrogen was consumed too quickly, and its brightness was decreasing rapidly. Do you know why Terra is full of deserts? Because the original sun was twice as bright as it is now."

"Iberia was once a desert, while Ursus and Great Yan, being close to the polar regions, were warm and fertile lands. Our civilization flourished in this area. If you are lucky enough to break through those... you know monsters and enter the Arctic, you will see our former cities and aerospace engineering centers."

"And now, people can live in Iberia. You should know what that means, right?"

"The brightness is decaying too quickly, so a helium flash is about to occur. By the way, you just said it was the fourth time, so what about the third time?"

"The third time, we stopped it..." the doctor said calmly. "Using Originium and the moon, we captured a wandering asteroid, turned it into Terra's second moon, and shattered part of the first moon. The resulting Originium dust and rocks absorbed a great deal of the energy released by the star, thus surviving."

"So, that's why you said it's the remains of a defensive barrier?"

“Yes, this star will eventually engulf our world, and the only way is to leave it before the fourth nova, the real helium flash. The entire galaxy is moving away from the star cluster, and we not only need to outrun the helium flash, but also the galaxy’s speed.” The doctor made an explosion gesture. “And then? Then an unimaginable flare, pop… all hope, gone.”

"Starship No. 1 was accelerating around the star, and 450,000 people were instantly turned to ashes. Starship No. 2 was launched hastily, and no one knows where it went."

And the third one, which was the largest one, was only half-finished when everyone on board was wiped out by the solar flare.

"Not only that, the solar flare caused the Originium defense zone, which should have been quite a distance from Terra, to drop in altitude, and some Originium entered the atmosphere. As a result, you have seen frequent natural disasters."

"The lowering of the defensive belt blocked out the sunlight, and the dust and low temperatures turned the originally thick clouds into torrential rain. A rainstorm that lasted for three hundred years turned the polar city clusters into glaciers, Ursus into snowfields, deserts into oceans, and even the barren, wind-eroded deserts into the fertile Casimir Plain..."

The doctor's tone was full of mockery, after all, on this planet, the only one who could fully understand what he was saying and comprehend and imagine that scene was this crash-lander from an advanced civilization.

"By the way, these stones also turned our magnificent Jerusalem project, an orbital ring that encircles a star and is linked by space elevators at the poles, into a pile of junk. The leaked maintenance worker clusters formed very... weird things at the poles, and the breeding species we originally intended to cultivate for our new home fell into the ocean along with the orbital ring debris."

"So, what do you think after hearing Terra's epic tale?" the Doctor asked. "Do you find it incredibly magnificent, or do you find it utterly ridiculous, like a group of ants facing a tap in despair?"

"Neither," Old Xia scratched his head. "My idea is that opening a space debris recycling company here might be very profitable, if your polar city hasn't been destroyed by scrap metal yet."

"Aren't you afraid at all?"

"Yes, but being afraid is useless," Old Xia said honestly. "In fact, many aliens have said that we are creatures that do not know fear. Actually, it's not that we are not afraid, but that being afraid has no effect. I think you are the same, right?"

"Hmm..." The doctor was known as a cold-blooded and ruthless evil spirit, and he didn't know what fear was.

However, as Lao Xia said, for someone who has seen such true terror, someone who has faced the insignificant power of the universe and is still alive, nothing on the surface of this planet is worth fearing.

"Getting back to the point, I want your warp drive..." the Doctor got to the point. "This is our only hope. My original plan was to help Theresia unify the Sarkaz, and she's the one who knows the truth about all of this..."

The Doctor recalled that the Queen was so frightened that she couldn't sleep for a week. She only read the Doctor's memories out of curiosity.

Then... for a nomadic queen living in a post-wasteland era, she is no stronger than a three-year-old girl when facing the wrath of the sun.

"Unify the Sarkaz, use the power of the Sarkaz Demon King to unify the entire Terra, gather the power of the entire Terra, take back the Arctic Space City, and then use all available resources and relics to complete the construction of Starship No. 3 and run away. But now I have a better plan."

"The starship wasn't completed partly due to solar flares, and partly because our engine technology isn't advanced enough to propel such a massive ark away. But you do have warp drives; I've checked, they're up to four times the speed of light, right?"

"If you take it to carry that behemoth, it probably won't be able to fly at all."

“That’s alright. It means we can send people to the planet farthest from the sun first, using Terra and other planets as a shield against the helium flash.” The doctor began to explain his new plan with great enthusiasm.

"Four times the speed of light means that it would take about four hours to travel from Terra to the farthest planet and back, as long as your engines could support our large immigrant transport ships at the time. I remember there were two in the Arctic. We could transfer people and supplies to safe planets at a rate of 3 million people per day."

"Ahem, let me interrupt for a moment. If there were such a ship and it was compatible with Star Alliance technology, why wouldn't I just drive this thing straight home?" Old Xia complained.

“What do you think?” the doctor looked at him. “Given the vastness of the universe, four times the speed of light is only slightly faster than a snail crawling. If your hometown isn’t nearby, I think… you’re unlikely to go home before you die.”

"Uh..." The two of them remained silent for a long time.

"Your plans need to change, and I won't give you the warp drive; it's top secret. So, I need to get my hands on that ship you mentioned."

However, I promise to help you move your people to a safe area. Besides, I doubt that planet is a perfectly habitable place for the Terrans.

"No, so?"

"Alien colonization, establishing ecosystems and life support systems—I'm a professional in that." Old Xia was very proud of this; it was indeed within his area of ​​expertise.

"So, the first part of your plan won't change. Star colonization isn't as simple as you think. We need a lot of food, fuel, population, skilled workers, and organized evacuation. But there's a prerequisite: you have organizational capabilities, unless you're prepared to abandon more than 95% of Terra's population."

“You’re right…” The doctor realized he had been too happy too soon.

"So, you see, we're doing the same thing now: destroying those backward nobles, unifying Terra's productivity and organization, and integrating your remaining technology. Believe me, this isn't a waste of time. Warp engines and interstellar travel aren't like plug-and-play household appliances." Old Xia also had a detailed work plan in mind.

"By the way, how far off are you predicting for the helium flash?"

"350 years at most, or, if we're unlucky, about 200 years from now..."

"Uh..." Old Xia asked tentatively, "Do you know what our maximum lifespan is?"

"Ok?"